Thor Asset Management USA, LLC, a New York-based quantitative hedge fund manager, has selected QuantHouse’s QuantFEED low latency market data feeds to trade on US and European markets.
QuantFEED, the QuantHouse ultra low latency market data application, leverages QuantHouse feed handler technology, co-located within the exchange, written in C++ with a multi-threaded design and running on Linux.
The QuantHouse worldwide proprietary fiber optic network interconnects the heart of the exchanges in Chicago, New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt for ultimate trading performance.
“Leading edge buy side firms rely on high performance systematic trading technologies to optimize their trading business performance,” says Pierre-Franois Filet, CEO & co-Founder of QuantHouse. “This new success clearly shows that QuantHouse is one of the dominant global independent providers of low latency trading technologies”.
“For Thor Asset Management USA, LLC, employing the fastest real-time quotes is imperative for minimizing the execution slippage,” says Alexei Chekhlov, head of research at Thor Asset Management USA, LLC. “The QuantHouse QuantFEED technology delivers us the fastest real-time quotes among many of quote providers that we have researched, allowing us to be and stay very competitive in the area of high-frequency quantitative tradin.”
“More and more of the US-based hedge funds turn to Europe to leverage present opportunities,” says Stphane Leroy, head of global sales and marketing at QuantHouse. “We are working with a growing number of US firms and we are delighted by this new success which confirms our global positioning.”
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